Feel younger in menopause

Menopause symptoms can make you feel much older than
your years, especially when you experience these common symptoms:

Joint pain — generalized joint pain and muscle soreness can make
you feel achy and “creaky.”

Hot flashes — flushes of heat or night sweats put you on a temperature
roller coaster and turn you into a dripping puddle.

Menopause-related weight gain, especially around the belly — for
many women, this feels like the most aging symptom of all.

For many women, nothing feels the same during perimenopause and menopause, least
of all their bodies. But you can get your body back while you ease joint pain, tamp
down hot flashes and stop gaining excess weight. By resolving these symptoms at
their hormonal source, you can feel better — and younger.

How menopause can lead to joint pain, hot flashes and weight gain

Levels of sex hormones, particularly estrogen, become erratic, jumping up and down
in perimenopause. Since you have estrogen receptors throughout your body — including
your muscles — these wild fluctuations can be felt almost anywhere as symptoms,
according to Nanette Santoro, MD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the
University of Colorado Denver.

A good example is joint pain — more than half of all women suffer
from it during their menopause transition. Researchers have found that this joint
pain, sometimes called menopausal arthralgia, is probably related to declines in
estrogen. Estrogen protects against inflammation in the joints and even influences
women’s pain threshold.

This makes sense, since the same aches and pains occur both when estrogen production
is suppressed and when hormone therapy is stopped. From stiff shoulders to achy
hips, knees and hands, arthralgia and stiffness can seriously affect your quality
of life and make you feel much older than you are.

The same is true of hot flashes, the quintessential menopause symptom
and one of the most frequent. Hot flashes and night sweats are triggered as the
heat-regulating mechanism in the hypothalamus responds to estrogen withdrawal. Even
a tiny increase in body temperature can bloom into a heat-releasing hot flash. Your
skin may turn red and blotchy, and you may feel unusually anxious.

Dreaded weight gain in menopause is often called the “price of
getting older.” A Mayo Clinic study found that proteins, responding to lowered estrogen,
make fat cells store fat more efficiently and that those cellular changes slow the
fat-burning process — both of which can cause weight gain. The combination of weight
gain and the tendency to produce more belly fat in menopause can feel devastating.

How balancing hormones can stop joint pain, hot flashes and even weight gain

Victory over hot flashes

“I am facing perimenopause at the age of 47. I’d been suffering hot flashes during
the day, but the most bothersome and unbearable were at night, as I was getting
1-3 every hour. I was averaging 24 hot flashes a day — one day I counted 50 in a
24-hour period. As difficult as it was, I knew I needed to wait 2-4 weeks to feel
the effects. On day 14 of taking
Herbal Equilibrium, I had one tiny hot flash all day and now, a week later
they have gone away altogether. Your products have such a positive effect on my
ever-changing hormones.”

— Liza Dominguez

Menopause-related joint pain, hot flashes and weight gain are linked tightly to
hormones that naturally fluctuate during menopause. It’s hard to achieve hormonal
balance without help, especially when your levels and ratios of estrogen, progesterone
and testosterone are each shifting individually.

And so it helps when we turn to herbs that contain natural chemicals called adaptogenic phytocrines. These molecules, from plants like
black cohosh, chastetree, kudzu and red clover can naturally and gently help pull
your hormones into balance. Adaptogenic herbs can have specific effects that are
able to functionally dial back symptoms while promoting balance.

Find out more about
our exclusive herbal formula for hormonal balance if you need relief from
joint pain, hot flashes and even weight gain in menopause. When you achieve the
hormonal balance that’s right for your body, you can feel it. Continue to maintain
that balance if you want to keep your symptoms at bay.

Add these tips to help with joint pain, hot flashes and weight gain around the
midsection:

JOINT PAIN RELIEF TIPS

Do gentle stretching for more freedom of movement
Try simple flexibility exercises to help “oil” your joints, ligaments, muscles and
tendons, and improve muscle tone. Warm up by walking for a few minutes and then
focus on the joints that are bothering you most. Move s-l-o-w-l-y and don’t hold
your breath. Ease into each stretch until you feel a slight pull, but no pain. Stretching
should feel good, and it will become easier each time you do it, so keep at it.

Get your legs higher than your heart to help with painA gentle yoga inversion called viparita karani
(legs-up-the-wall pose) where the blood flows toward the heart helps relieve joint
pain in the legs, hips and low back. Lie down with your butt close to a wall. Run
your legs up the wall, and rest there for 5 minutes.

HOT FLASH RELIEF TIPS

Deep belly breathing to release heat and stress
You can diffuse hot flashes and night sweats with deep abdominal breathing. Lie
down or sit in a comfortable spot, with your right hand on your heart and your left
hand on your stomach. Close your eyes and breathe in slowly, counting 1-2-3-4-5,
and then breathe out counting 1-2-3-4-5. Do this for about 10 minutes at a time
in the morning and at night, and at the onset of hot flashes. Match the length of
your inhales to your exhales. Although simple, this takes a little practice.

Do. Not. Diet.
It may sound counterintuitive, but severely restricting your food intake will not
help you lose weight. Instead it triggers your body to burn up muscle tissue as
fuel. So-called “crash” diets also actually make you hungrier and slow your metabolism,
making your body more likely to put on pounds.

Add fiber and water to stay slimmer
Many women near menopause say fiber is their “secret weapon” for weight loss. Fiber-rich,
water-filled foods fill you up quicker and take longer to chew and digest. Eat a
fiber-filled apple before lunch, and you’ll probably eat a lot fewer calories. High
fiber cereals with fruit make an excellent breakfast when you’re losing weight.
Aim for at least 25 grams of fiber daily which may be double what you’re eating
now.

A natural approach can also help you reduce other troubling symptoms caused by hormonal
imbalance – including
urinary incontinence,
menopause and sex issues (both physical and emotional) and menopause
brain. There’s no reason not to feel better today, no matter what age you are.

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